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The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Oct 2016

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Learning Showcase 2016: A Celebration of Discovery, Transformation and Success

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The Key Variables Healthcare Executives Consider When Altering Services, David Meckstroth Nov 2014

The Key Variables Healthcare Executives Consider When Altering Services, David Meckstroth

Learning Showcase 2014

Health care executives face a multitude of challenges and changes on a daily basis. Health care reform and the Accountable Care Act will require executives to increase the value of the services offered by hospitals to insurance companies and patients. The literature search identified 11 key variables executives consider when altering services. The research study conducted a quantitative survey of the entire population of top health care executives in Ohio non-profit short-term acute care hospitals. In addition, qualitative individual depth interviews of 48 top executives at 13 hospitals were conducted by the researcher. A mixed methods approach was utilized to …


Building The Future Of Healthcare, Gregory D. Norton Nov 2014

Building The Future Of Healthcare, Gregory D. Norton

Learning Showcase 2014

The Wexner Medical Center (WMC) at The Ohio State University (OSU) is a non-profit, academic medical center serving central and southern Ohio. WMC is a large system with 6 hospitals and a vast support network of healthcare providers and researcher. This presentation contains an overview of OSUWMC and its strategic plans, key result areas and challenges it will face during its ongoing growth and development as a premiere health system.


Healthcare Expansion Of Scope, Steve Adkins Nov 2014

Healthcare Expansion Of Scope, Steve Adkins

Learning Showcase 2014

The healthcare system of OhioHealth has a reputation for providing quality care. As with any healthcare system, there are some populations who are underserved. There are several changes OhioHealth can make to enlarge its customer base. Some of the techniques OhioHealth can use involve increasing its scope of practice in these areas: complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), long-term care, men’s bone health, and social media. The need for long-term care will continue to increase as the population ages. OhioHealth can merge with a long-term care company to provide OhioHealth with the facilities. This strategy is more likely to be successful …


Ohiohealth: A System Overview, Meghan Parsley Nov 2014

Ohiohealth: A System Overview, Meghan Parsley

Learning Showcase 2014

The OhioHealth health system is a network of not-for-profit hospitals and healthcare organizations in central Ohio. The growing system is expanding regionally, which leads to a variety of challenges. The major challenges faced by the organization relate to the overall size of the organization, competitive market, external environmental factors such as healthcare reform, and physician alignment. The organization pursues a cost leadership strategy and while still offering state of the art equipment and facilities.

OhioHealth’s central operating location is Franklin County, Ohio. They compete against two major healthcare providers, The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center and Mount Carmel. To build …


Mount Carmel Health System, Peggy Anderson Nov 2014

Mount Carmel Health System, Peggy Anderson

Learning Showcase 2014

Addresses the following for Mount Carmel Health System:

  • Methods
  • Organizational Structure
  • Existing Plans
  • Environmental Assessment
  • Leadership Challenges
  • Legal & Ethical Challenges
  • Performance Challenges
  • Operations Challenges
  • Financial Challenges
  • Recommended Change Strategies


The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Strategic Analysis, Ryan Cottrell, David Meckstroth Nov 2014

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Strategic Analysis, Ryan Cottrell, David Meckstroth

Learning Showcase 2014

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center is a health system located in Columbus, Ohio that provides healthcare services to more than 2.3 Million residents of Central Ohio. OSUWMC is the third largest health system in the region behind OhioHealth and Mount Carmel. Mount Carmel operates four hospitals and two urgent care facilities and employs over 8,000 individuals, of which 1,500 are physicians. OhioHealth is a faith-based health system that contracts more than 2,000 physicians in 17 hospitals and 20 surgical centers. Competing against these two systems will prove to be a challenge that requires the use of strategic analysis. …